This is the women's room at the Sunnyside Asylum in Christchurch, around 1883. While other hospital care became more specialised over the 20th century, psychiatric hospitals had always been stand-alone buildings administered separately from other hospitals.
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PhotoCD 3, IMG0019
Photograph by Burton Brothers
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